This section of Dialogue features a roundup of outside media coverage faculty, staff, and students in our college received. If you have a news item you would like included in the next Dialogue, please email Amanda Womac.
Humanities and Visual & Performing Arts
- The Wall Street Journal: Holocaust Survivor Manfred Steinfeld Built a Furniture Empire (Judaic Studies)
- The Atlantic: Why Donald Trump’s Racist Language Isn’t Debatable (English)
- Tullahoma News: THS Band Season Gets Its Marching Orders At Band Camp (Music)
Natural Sciences
- Washington Post: Ancient Life Awakens Amid Thawing Ice Caps and Permafrost (Microbiology)
- News Sentinel: No, Meth-Gators Aren’t Real, But You Still Shouldn’t Flush Your Drugs (Microbiology)
- Mother Jones: You Can Bury It for 40000 Years, but Don’t Mess With Arctic Life (Microbiology)
- Physics World: Giant Leaps for Knowledge (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- Gold County Media: The Importance of Biodiversity and How Invasive Plants Diminish It (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
- Forbes: The End of the Longest-Running Warming Experiment (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
- National Geographic: This Toddler-Size Parrot Was a Prehistoric Oddity (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
Social Sciences
- Compass: Tweet Trackers (Anthropology)
- WBIR: Tree Rings Reveal Centuries of Hidden Climate History (Geography)
- The New York Times (Lisa Gardner, Opinion): In Search of Inspiration (and Accuracy), A Student of Murder Pays a Visit to the Body Farm (Anthropology)
- Daily Mail: Deep-Sea Explorer Who Found Titanic Takes on New Mission: find Amelia Earhart’s Plane (Anthropology)
- Vox: The White House Says Russia Didn’t Impact the 2016 Election. That’s Not Exactly True (Anthropology)
- Business Herald: Physical Act of Smiling and Frowning Make Us Happier or Sadder, Study Suggests (Psychology)
- The Conversation (Derek Alderman and Jordan Brasher, Opinion): A Confederate Statue Graveyard Could Help Bury the Old South (Anthropology)
- News Sentinel: Children Don’t Get Enough Sleep, and It Has Profound Effects on their Health, Experts Say (Psychology)
Other News
- News Sentinel: Meet the Finalists of the YWCA Tribute to Women Awards
UT faculty and staff among the award finalists include Kathy Hart of the School of Music, Meghan Conley of the Department of Sociology, and Missy Parker of the College of Arts and Sciences. - News Sentinel: UT Grad Programs Ranked Among Best In Nation By US News & World Report